Elymas; apparently an Arabic word meaning wise of learned, that is, in the arts of sorcery.

Turn away the deputy; prevent his embracing the gospel. Teachers of falsehood and pretenders to superior power are always afraid of the faithful preaching of the gospel. So far as it is embraced and followed, their influence will be gone; they therefore misrepresent and oppose it, slander those who preach it, and in various ways seek to prevent men from receiving it.

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Old Testament